netdev - [PATCH] openvswitch: using kfree

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Date:	Mon, 27 Aug 2012 12:20:45 +0800
From:	Wei Yongjun <weiyj.lk@...il.com>
To:	jesse@...ira.com, davem@...emloft.net
Cc:	yongjun_wei@...ndmicro.com.cn, dev@...nvswitch.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] openvswitch: using kfree_rcu() to simplify the code

From: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@...ndmicro.com.cn>

The callback function of call_rcu() just calls a kfree(), so we
can use kfree_rcu() instead of call_rcu() + callback function.

spatch with a semantic match is used to found this problem.
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@...ndmicro.com.cn>
---
 net/openvswitch/flow.c | 10 +---------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/openvswitch/flow.c b/net/openvswitch/flow.c
index b7f38b1..c7bf2f2 100644
--- a/net/openvswitch/flow.c
+++ b/net/openvswitch/flow.c
@@ -427,19 +427,11 @@ void ovs_flow_deferred_free(struct sw_flow *flow)
 	call_rcu(&flow->rcu, rcu_free_flow_callback);
 }
 
-/* RCU callback used by ovs_flow_deferred_free_acts. */
-static void rcu_free_acts_callback(struct rcu_head *rcu)
-{
-	struct sw_flow_actions *sf_acts = container_of(rcu,
-			struct sw_flow_actions, rcu);
-	kfree(sf_acts);
-}
-
 /* Schedules 'sf_acts' to be freed after the next RCU grace period.
  * The caller must hold rcu_read_lock for this to be sensible. */
 void ovs_flow_deferred_free_acts(struct sw_flow_actions *sf_acts)
 {
-	call_rcu(&sf_acts->rcu, rcu_free_acts_callback);
+	kfree_rcu(sf_acts, rcu);
 }
 
 static int parse_vlan(struct sk_buff *skb, struct sw_flow_key *key)

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